Barronelle Stutzman became a focal point of religious freedom court cases after she respectfully refused to design floral arrangements that would have celebrated a homosexual wedding. She strived to remain loyal to her biblical faith, not wanting to use her artistic talent in any way that would celebrate sinful behavior. Unfortunately, after two cases with the Washington Supreme Court, the U.S. Supreme Court announced that it would not hear her appeal. You can read more about

Christians are often accused of “imposing” their beliefs on others during debates on various topics such as origins, sanctity of life, and sexual morality. Christian beliefs are widely recognized as being Christian, and therefore, humanists use the common line of "You're just imposing your religious beliefs." Yet, the religion of humanism is not as commonly recognized. Individuals, companies, college campuses, and governments can easily force their humanist beliefs on others

There is a major deception in American culture that public schools are nonreligious. When tenets of Christianity were booted from the public school system decades ago, tenets of humanism filled the void. One of those tenets is the evolutionary worldview, including biological, geological, and cosmological evolution. The evolutionary worldview is a religious belief, but while it can be labeled as “science” in our culture, it wins a free pass for government endorsement. I ch

Humanists typically insist that their evolutionary worldview is based on “science,” and adamantly reject the hard truth that their worldview is based on faith. In Parts 2 and 3 of the Humanism as Religion debate, I repeatedly challenged humanists on the Friendly Atheist Facebook page to provide observable, repeatable, and testable examples of the following: 1. Life evolving from non-life. 2. “Upward” changes in the genotype and phenotype of an organism, such as an originally

Should humanists have the same rights or “perks” as other religious groups? That question has been the subject of debate for decades, dating all the way back to the 1961 Supreme Court case of Torcaso v. Watkins.[i] The ruling opinion of that case, along with the opinion of a more recent U.S. District Court Case, American Humanists v. U.S., classified humanism as a religion in order to protect the free exercise of humanist beliefs.[ii] Now, I understand that some Christians

What is one convenient way to outlaw Christian beliefs in America? Establish a different religion behind the guise of "civil rights." That is exactly what LGBT activists/humanists are trying to do when they sue Christian business owners such as Jack Phillips. The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) recently heard oral arguments for Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission. Jack Phillips is the owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop. In summary, he was sued

The fate of religious freedom, especially Christian freedom, hangs in the balance with an upcoming U.S. Supreme Court case: Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission. Alliance Defending Freedom, the legal organization supporting Masterpiece Cakeshop, summarizes it like this: Jack Phillips, the owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop in Colorado, is not in the business of turning away any person. In fact, when two men came into his shop one summer afternoon asking Jack t

Have you ever heard somebody say “I’m not religious, I’m an atheist/agnostic”? On the contrary, atheism and agnosticism are subsets of Humanism, which can certainly be classified as a religion. As noted in the American Humanist Association’s (AHA) list of possible definitions for Humanism, “Humanism is a philosophy, worldview, or lifestance based on naturalism—the conviction that the universe or nature is all that exists or is real. Humanism serves, for many humanists, some